English III - Unit 5 - List 21

Define: assiduous

• careful, hardworking, and thorough; diligent

• sarcastic; biting; stinging

• to scold sharply

• to clarify, explain

Define: caustic

• careful, hardworking, and thorough; diligent

• sarcastic; biting; stinging

• to scold sharply

• to clarify, explain

Define: chastise

• careful, hardworking, and thorough; diligent

• sarcastic; biting; stinging

• to scold sharply

• to clarify, explain

Define: elucidate

• careful, hardworking, and thorough; diligent

• sarcastic; biting; stinging

• to scold sharply

• to clarify, explain

Define: exalt

• to glorify;honor

• based on error; mistaken

• a pretense of having beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually possess; insincerity

• a person who revolts against established authority

Define: fallacious

• to glorify;honor

• based on error; mistaken

• a pretense of having beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually possess; insincerity

• a person who revolts against established authority

Define: hypocrisy

• to glorify;honor

• based on error; mistaken

• a pretense of having beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually possess; insincerity

• a person who revolts against established authority

Define: insurgent

• to glorify;honor

• based on error; mistaken

• a pretense of having beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually possess; insincerity

• a person who revolts against established authority

Define: placid

• to glorify;honor

• based on error; mistaken

• peaceful; calm

• overused and commonplace; hackneyed

Define: trite

• to glorify;honor

• based on error; mistaken

• peaceful; calm

• overused and commonplace; hackneyed